hi,

I'm implementing this sequence of puppets in flex: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72686/itemsSequence.png

1. I want to show the caption when the mouse rolls over the puppet

2. I want the user being able to click on the buttons of the caption (so the caption doesn't have to disappear when I move the mouse out from the user over the caption).

3. I don't want the puppet component to become bigger when the caption is added (it becomes visible), because the puppets have to stay nearby each other, I cannot resize the objects.

So.. I need some guidelines to do it. More precisely:

1) Should I add the components in MXML or pure actionscript ?

2) If I use MXML, should I add also the caption to the flex model, and make it invisible and then change the value with actionscript ?

What's the common way to implement it ?

thanks